(1)
Last month, Sarah Palin went to Iowa, to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s Reagan Day dinner.

Among other brilliant statements, she declared: “It’s time to take our country back.”

I’ve been waiting patiently, but she still hasn’t clarified how many years she wants to take us back.

(2)
As I sat down to write this post, I did a Google News search for “It’s time to take our country back”. Just to see who in the mainstream media said what about it.

I really wasn’t prepared for the results. Just eight hits. One from CBS News, which played up the comment, making it the headline for the story. One from the comments section of a different CBS News story about Palin (which didn’t quote the “country back” statement). One from a LaCrosse Tribune blog post which has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. One in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, more than a week after Palin made the statement. One from an ESPN story which has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. One from an archived version of this ESPN story. One false hit from a different ESPN story. And one from a lesser-known blog, which again has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

So that makes just two media hits to Palin’s statement. What gives? (And let’s remember, this is Sarah Palin in Iowa, which is automatically supposed to be headline news, isn’t it?)